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The Shoes of the Fisherman
By Morris West
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The pope is dead and the corridors of the Vatican hum with intrigue as cardinals gather to elect his successor. The result is a surprise: the new pope is the youngest of them all-a bearded Ukrainian. The Shoes of the Fisherman is the moving story of Kiril I, recently released from 17 years in Siberian labor camps and haunted by his past. Not only is he the leader of a fractured Catholic Church, but he also finds he must confront his inquisitor and tormentor in order to avert another world war.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I remember reading this book years ago and loving it. I first got acquainted with it through an abridged version put out by Reader's Digest. Later I found the complete book and enjoyed it even more.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A superb book. Centred on the papacy and world politics, it examines many of the great spiritual and religious themes. In passing it reminds us how real the fear of nuclear war was in the 1960s, when it was written and set. In the thinking of the Jesuit palaeontologist Jean Telemond there are echoes of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (even in the title of his seminal work, "The Progress of Man" v "The Phenomenon of Man"). The main character, Pope Kiril, certainly doesn't echo John XXIII, but nevertheless many of the issues with which he struggles are those which were addressed in John XXIII's Second Vatican Council. This very readable story grapples sympathetically with many of the difficulties and even contradictions which face the Church.The ending is... difficult. On the one hand it is a very good ending, a critical decision made but leaving things hanging. On the other hand it leaves the reader wishing for more... which is perhaps a good way to end a book?
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/51029 The Shoes of the Fisherman, by Morris L. West (read 12 Oct 1969) I began this book on the afternoon of Oct 11, and not being able to sleep finished it at 6:15 A.M. today. I was touched at times. But it is facile, so popularizing. And of course, fiction which is so obviously fiction is hard for me to swallow. The book is laid in the early 1960's--but no real person is in it. Teilhard de Chardin is there under a different name--but he died in 1955. So how cam he be? And so on. Well, it did have good things in it. But it has dated horribly--we now have the vernacular in the liturgy, and much more surprisingly than "Kiril I" authorized. Pope Paul has gone to every continent. Man has reached the moon. Etc.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A superb book. Centred on the papacy and world politics, it examines many of the great spiritual and religious themes. In passing it reminds us how real the fear of nuclear war was in the 1960s, when it was written and set. In the thinking of the Jesuit palaeontologist Jean Telemond there are echoes of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (even in the title of his seminal work, "The Progress of Man" v "The Phenomenon of Man"). The main character, Pope Kiril, certainly doesn't echo John XXIII, but nevertheless many of the issues with which he struggles are those which were addressed in John XXIII's Second Vatican Council. This very readable story grapples sympathetically with many of the difficulties and even contradictions which face the Church.The ending is... difficult. On the one hand it is a very good ending, a critical decision made but leaving things hanging. On the other hand it leaves the reader wishing for more... which is perhaps a good way to end a book?
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5While I enjoyed learning more about the inner workings of the Vatican, "The Shoes of the Fisherman" was torturously slow with very little plot line. It was a huge effort to finish the novel but I did like Kiril Lakota, the young Ukrainian pope as he struggled with his new position, internal politics and his deep loneliness. However, I had little interest in all the other characters and I certainly won't be continuing with the series.